Provide light
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Quiet light |
| Original title | Provide light |
| Country of production | Mexico , France , Netherlands |
| original language | Plautdietsch |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 145 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlos Reygadas |
| script | Carlos Reygadas |
| production | Carlos Reygadas Jaime Romandia |
| camera | Alexis Zabé |
| cut | Natalia López |
| occupation | |
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Stellet Licht (also Stilles Licht or Luz silenciosa, English title Silent Light, festival title Lumière silencieuse ) is a feature film by Carlos Reygadas . The film was nominated for competition at the 60th Cannes International Film Festival .
action
Stellet Licht tells the tragic-poetic love story of a Plautdiet Mennonite in northern Mexico. Johan, who is married to Esther, is a farmer, has 6 children and lives in a religious colony where Plautdietsch is spoken. By having a relationship with another woman (Marianne) and loving two women at the same time, he commits an unforgivable sin and opposes his church and God. Violent conscience torments drive Johan to the edge of his mental resilience. He speaks openly with both women about his feelings, no matter how hurtful it is for them. Despite everything, Johan believes that paradise can also exist on earth.
background
The Mexican director Carlos Reygadas occupied Silent Light with amateur actors, as before in his films Japón and Battle In Heaven . The film was shot in the vicinity of the northern Mexican Mennonite metropolis Cuauhtémoc .
The original language of the film is Plautdietsch , a West Prussian variety of Low German . The film was shown at the Cannes premiere in 2007 with subtitles in English and French. Stellet Licht is the first international movie in Plautdietsch language.
With their countries of origin, the main characters reflect part of the Russian-Mennonite migration history: Miriam Toews lives in Canada , where a large part of the Mennonites from what was then southern Russia (now Ukraine) emigrated to at the end of the 19th century . Some of these Russian mennonites established new colonies in Mexico in the 1920s and later , where Cornelio Wall is now at home. The part of the Russian mennonites who remained in the Soviet Union until the Second World War has meanwhile also migrated further, namely as part of the repatriate group to Germany - Maria Pankratz is one of them; she was born in Kazakhstan and now lives in Espelkamp, Westphalia .
Both Maria Pankratz and Miriam Toews were registered through the Plautdietsch-Freunde e. V. (Detmold) mediated by Peter Wiens .
The film was funded by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) . The producers were Mantarraya Producciones and NoDream, together with BAC Films, Arte France Cinema, Foprocine and Motel Films as co-producers.
criticism
Olivier Bombarda writes on the Arte website about Stellet Licht that “even in retrospect, 'Lumière Silencieuse' emanates a fascinating feeling” and that this is a feeling of “the elevation of the soul to the divine, like a prayer”. The reason for this: In Stellet Licht, "this so simple story", "the idea of a miracle was brought into play at the last moment," says Bombarda, and the pictures are "of such astonishing beauty".
Awards
- 2007 60th Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or (nomination)
- 2007 60th Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize (winner, together with Marjane Satrapis and Vincent Paronnauds Persepolis )
- 2007 Chicago International Film Festival - Gold Hugo (Winner)
- 2007 Huelva International Film Festival - Colón de Oro (Winner)
- 2007 Bergen International Film Festival - Norwegian Film Institute's Import Award (Winner)
- 2007 Stockholm International Film Festival - "Best Screenplay" (Winner)
- 2007 International Festival of New Latin American Films - Gran Coral (Winner)
- 2008 Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas - Premio Ariel (9 nominations)
- 2008 Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas - " Best Film " (winner)
- 2008 Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas - "Best Director": Carlos Reygadas (winner)
- 2008 Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas - "Best Original Screenplay": Carlos Reygadas (winner)
- 2008 Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas - "Best Supporting Actress": Maria Pankratz (winner)
- 2008 Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas - "Best Cinematography": Alexis Zabé (winner)
- 2008 Arsenals Film Festival Riga - Interfilm Prize (winner)
Mexico's "Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences" suggested Stellet Licht for nomination for the American Oscar 2008 for best foreign language film in October 2007 .
Web links
- official Stellet-Licht homepage
- Hollywood Reporter (September 30, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )
- Silent Light in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article by Garance Burke (Associated Press) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Globe and Mail ( memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of May 12, 2007.
- ↑ Arte Internet pages ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 19th International Film Forum “Arsenals” Riga. (No longer available online.) In: interfilm.org. Archived from the original on December 27, 2013 ; Retrieved July 2, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
